The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE will Of the late ex-Vice. President
William A. Wheeler gives S25 600 to home
missions and 6, 900 to foreign missions.
THE prohibition question was brought to
a focus in the Canadian Commons recently.
A motion repeating the Scott act, the ex-
listing local option law, was voted down.
Then an attempt was made TO ALLOW beer
and light wines to be sold in the counties
having the Scott act, but this was voted
down. Then the motion favoring prohibi-
tion was voted down by AZ majority.
A PARIS correspondent says that a treaty
| has been. drawn between France and
Abyssinia, by which King John will dis
pute the right of Italy to the places already
occupied, while France will subscribe g40,
600 TO the Ethiopian convent at Jerusalem,
which supplies Abyssinia with Coptic
clergy.
THE lower house of the Massachusetts
Legislature has rejected the constitutional
prohibitory amendment-135 to 73.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
ers published their opinion of the long and
short haul section of the Commerce act on
the 18th The document was quite lengthy
and in effect stated that railroad companies
must judge for themselves as to whether
they are entitled to discriminate under pre-
sumed conditions, when aggrieved parties
can seek redress from the Commission.
THE Department Of State has received
through the British Minister at Washing
ton an invitation to the Government to
take part in the centennial international
exposition which is to be held at Melbourne,
Australia, in 1888.
THE reported intention Of the President to
| rot m n 0o orf1 arHa IN 10
various States in the late Confederacy has
intensified the already bitter feelings ex-
isting in some Of the Grand Army posts
against the President, and resolutions de-
nouncing the proposed return of the flags
| have been adopted
THE revolution which broke out in the
province of Tucuman, Argentine Republic,
was suppressed with the loss of 400 lives.
The Governor and chief officers of the prov
ince were taken prisoners.
THE British jubilee celebration began on
the 18th with banquet and a ball at
tended by the Prince of Wales and other
notables.
| THE Rhode Island House has passed a
| bill to enforce the prohibitory amendment.
THE Lord Mayor of London recently en-
tertained at banquet large number of
notable actors and actresses. The affair
was much appreciated by the profession.
The President has reconsidered his de-
termination to send the captured battle
| flags back to the South, and in a letter,
dated June 16, to the Secretary of War
stated that 1t was matter that more prop
| erly pertained to Congress.
BOTH branches of the Massachusetts
| Legislature were prorogued on the 10Th.
| RECENT advices from Honolulu stated
that revolution was imminent in Hawaii
and that King Kalakaua's life was threat
ened.
! MOsT of the Gladstonians and all of the
Parnellites ab5tained from voting in the
closing committee scenes on the Irish
| Crimes bill in the British Commons on the
nth The offer of further amendments
will be postponed until final action is taken
on the bill.
EDITOR OBRIEN, on his return to Cork,
| Ireland, was enthusiastically received and
the freedom of the city presented to him.
THE Hawaiian Consul General in London
denies the stories circulated about troubles
having arisen IN King Kalakaua's domin-
ion and the possible deposition of the King.
He says the stories were probably put into
currency by knot of disaffected politi-
clans.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MICHENoR, of In
diana, has decided that Colonel Robertson
| is Lieutenant-G of that State, hav-
ing been legally elected last fall.
THE Union Labor party of Kentucky was
organized on the 18th at Lagrange, KY.